Word: treks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real life that wing and prayer belong to Paramount studios, which has budgeted $20 million for a flashy film revival of Star Trek, the unkillable TV series. Its hope is that the show's fans, known for their legendary loyalty, will flock to the theaters next Christmas in Trekkie-breaking numbers...
...most important character to watch, in true Star Trek tradition, is the villain. Star Trek Creator Eugene Roddenberry, 57, is famous for introducing horrible monsters who are searching for a little understanding to make them un-horrible. While the film's script is under tight lock and key, it is safe to speculate, as does Actor Leonard Nimoy, the pointy-eared Mr. Spock, "that we eventually find our antagonist is searching as well." At first the Enterprise will be fighting what looks like a cloud of electrically charged whipped cream, but the monster is hiding its true nature...
...years, of course, Paramount has been getting just the opposite news about Star Trek's box-office potential. The show was dreamed up by Roddenberry in 1966, because he thought that science fiction might provide a persuasive way of telling a hopeful, and presumably profitable, vision of history. Says he: "It seemed to me that if I had a ship, a home base, I could take it out and make any kind of comment I wanted...
...Belli, "the King of Torts," counselor to Errol Flynn, Martha Mitchell, and the Rolling Stones and as colorful as all of them, the Muhammed Ali of the bar--a superstar of the courtroom-as-theater, with credits that include Star Trek and Gimme Shelter...
Eventually Teng was restored to good standing and became editor of the army newspaper Red Star. In 1934, he joined Mao's legendary Long March?the heroic, 6,000-mile trek by the party's forces, under constant harassment by Chiang Kai-shek's armies?to remote Yenan, in Shensi province. Food was scarce in the mountainous caves, but Teng rose ingeniously to the occasion. According to Chou's secretary, Yang Yi-chih, Teng earned the gratitude of Mao and other party leaders because of his skills, not in the military arts, but in cooking. He was justly famous...